HINES, Hubert Thomas
| Service Number: | 8695 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 July 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Balmain Christian Brothers School and Sydney Technical High School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Electrician |
| Died: | Killed In Action, France, 18 September 1918, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Jeancourt Communal Cemetery Extension |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Sydney Technical High School WW1 Roll Of Honour, Tamworth ANZAC Park Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 8695, 8th Field Ambulance, Liverpool, New South Wales | |
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| 17 Dec 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 8695, 8th Field Ambulance, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Dec 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 8695, 8th Field Ambulance, HMAT Berrima, Sydney | |
| 1 Sep 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1), "The Last Hundred Days" |
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Biography contributed by Sydney Technical High School
Hubert Thomas Hines was born in February 1896 in Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales to his Roman Catholic parents Edward and Bridget Hines who were his next of kin; he had three siblings. Hubert attended Sydney Technical High School and Balmain Christians Brothers School during the late 1900s beginning at age twelve, he graduated at eighteen. Following graduation he became an electrical engineer where he had an apprenticeship of a year and nine months.
Hubert Hines enlisted as a private at Liverpool enlistment office at age nineteen and three months on the 19th July 1915. By early December 1915 he had embarked on the HMAT A35 Berrima bound for Egypt. He proceeded to the Middle East arriving at Tel el Kabir to join the BEF at Alexandria. After further training he moved to France in June and was sent to hospital in July to recover from a fever. He recovered within a week and was attached to base and then transferred to the 47th Battalion for duty in September.
Following April, by June he was involved with the battle of Messines, a german heavily defended position, they were successful in the battle from the placement of 19 mines which caused ten thousand German casualties. It was then he fought in the major battle, the battle of passchendaele with his battalion which was the third battle of ypres. However, it was unsuccessful and led to a high death toll.
By March he had just begun the fight in the German Spring offensives across the Western Front. Ultimately, the offensive did not work and Hines’ and his Battalion and allies were successful in defending the offensive. On the 8th of April 1918 he was sent to the 3rd London General Hospital to be treated for gunshot wounds to the right hand and forehead, luckily he quickly recovered. The 47th Battalion took part in the battle of Amiens, in the Somme which led to the advance of 12 kilometers and the capture of many Germans on the 8th to 11th of August.
On 18th of September 1918 during the battle of the Hindenburg outposts, at Le Verguier in Northern France he was fatally shot by machine gun fire and shrapnel, dying on the first day of the attack. He was 22 and killed in action.
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